Hello,
I'm the FreeBSD nfe driver from http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html with FreeBSD 6-stable with good results for the most part. The only issue I've experienced is that during a detach/shutdown of if_nfe, the IPMI IP address I have set on my servers ceases to respond as well as the ability to manage the servers. I traced the problem down to nfe_stop() and the fact that it completely disables the Rx and Tx on the NIC. I have patched the driver to not disable the Rx/Tx and IPMI continues to work after a 'ifconfig nfe0 down', 'shutdown -p now', etc. Does anyone have any comments on this change I've made and any possible side effects? Can this be included in the mainstream distribution of the nfe drivers (and updated in 7-CURRENT) without causing any adverse problems? Thanks, Robert S Wojciechowski / ExpressYard 810.953.3799 x200 / cell 248.872.4509
nfe-ipmi.patch
Description: nfe-ipmi.patch
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